Cold Fusion & Patent Office
August 6, 1999
INVESTIGATION OF PATENT OFFICE
Special Agent Kimberlee Taylor
Due to complaints about the reluctance of the Office of
Patents and Trademarks to allow any patent applications for cold
fusion, or low-energy nuclear reactions to be processed beyond being
rejected, an investigation has been ordered.
Special Agent Kimberlee Taylor has been asked to get
information about the complaints against the actions of the Office of
Patents and Trademarks and report back to her supervisor. Dr. Mitchell
Swartz has sent 35 pounds of papers, books, and 3 videos to Ms.
Taylor. Hal Fox has written a four-
page summary of the events that have attempted to dismiss cold fusion
as bad science.
It is believed that this investigation has been caused
by citizens writing to their elected officials (Senators and Members
of Congress). It is further strongly suggested that the best possible
help for the support of this investigation will be a considerable
expression of concern from our Senators and Members of Congress.
PLEASE WRITE THE MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM YOUR
DISTRICT AND BOTH SENATORS FROM YOUR STATE. Send a copy to Ms.
Kimberlee Taylor.
A brief summary of the history of the attempts to stop
the development of cold fusion is posted at ????? [ check
http://www.padrak.com/ine ] (Dr. Bailey put in a hot button or
something and post the attachment)
Please help this important investigation by sharing this
message with everyone you can, especially via the internet. Here are
salient features:
The United States is the only nation to deny inventors
the right to patent cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions
inventions. Why?
Of over 3,000 technical papers on cold fusion (many
theory and review papers) over 600 papers from over 200 scientific
laboratories from precisely 30 countries have reported success in
replicating or extending the original discovery of Professors Pons and
Fleischmann.
Over 100 cold fusion (new-hydrogen energy) patents have
issued in Japan.
Seven international conferences have been held on cold
fusion with an estimated 200 or more scientists attending each
conference. Is it conceivable that all of this time and effort by
world-class scientists would be spent on a scientific fraud?
Two groups offer kits for sale with MONEY-BACK
GUARANTEES of success. Professor John Dash is preparing to sell cold
fusion kits to high schools. His summer classes for entering science
students and interested high-school students have had successful cold
fusion experiments every summer for several years.
The person in the Office of Patents and Trademarks who
is the supervisor of the activity to handle the class of inventions
that include cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions is Harvey
Bhrendt. He is reported to state that cold fusion is not real because
there are no commercial products on the market. Perhaps he hasn't
heard about the products that are being offered for sale with a
money-back guarantee. Perhaps he realizes that it is very difficult to
commercial a product without patent protection.
The big issue is the denial to U.S. inventors of their
constitutional rights to the protection of their inventions!
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Here is the background information faxed to Special
Agent Taylor:
Dear Ms. Kimberlee Taylor,
We have been informed that you are interested in
information regarding cold fusion and low-energy nuclear reactions and
the policy of the Office of Patents and Trademarks with respect to
patent applications. The following information may be of some
interest:
A. BACKGROUND
As the director of the first research laboratory at the
University of Utah Research Park, I was intensely interested in the
March 23, 1989 announcement of cold fusion called by the University of
Utah administration (not called by Pons and Fleischmann). The
announcement of a new source of energy was most exciting to me. That
day I began the plans for trying to be of some help (systems
engineering background, missile system
specialist for several years). By mid April 1989 we had organized the
Fusion Information Center and obtained offices at the University of
Utah Research Park.
By July 1989, we had decided that information gathering
and publishing such information would be our best role. Our first
edition of Fusion Facts was published in July 1989 and continued as a
monthly publication for several years before being incorporated as a
part of the Journal of New Energy, a peer-reviewed, quarterly,
scientific journal (abstracted from the
first issue by Chemical Abstracts -- the world's foremost scientific
abstracting organization).
B. THE ATTACKS ON COLD FUSION
By the fall of 1989 it was apparent that someone had
organized and was carrying out a campaign against the new technology
of cold fusion. Here are the facts, insofar, as we have been able to
gather and publish the facts. Please note that all of this was done in
secrecy (except for the ERAB sub committee).
A subcommittee of the Energy Research Advisory Board
traveled to various laboratories where successes in cold fusion had
been claimed. If the research was measuring neutrons, they were told
that it was background radiation. If the researcher was getting
tritium, they were told that it was contamination. If excess heat was
being produced, they were told that they didn't have proper
calorimetry. Except for one small
paragraph in the ERAB final report, demanded by one of the honest
members of the committee, the report was entirely negative about cold
fusion.
An arrangement was made for someone in the Office of
Patents (any type of coercion or reward is unknown) to ensure that no
cold fusion patent application was accepted for patenting. Each
person, as far as we have been able to determine, was sent the same
information: a copy of a newspaper article from the New York Times
saying that cold fusion doesn't work; a copy of the paper by 16 Ph.D.s
from MIT stating that they could not
replicate cold fusion (this is the paper where the authors removed the
data showing that they did get a small amount of excess heat).
A person (representing powers-that-be in Washington,
D.C.) called many of the physics and chemistry departments at major
universities in the United States. Here was his message as relayed to
me from one such department: "If you have so much as a graduate
student working on cold fusion, you will get no contracts out of
Washington."
All editors of the major scientific journals were
contacted and were instructed not to publish articles on cold fusion.
All editors but one then set up barriers against cold fusion
publications. The one editor who did not accept that type of
instruction was Professor George Miley, editor until this
year of Fusion Technology, the international journal of the American
Nuclear Society.
An amount of $30,000 (or $40,000 - different sources)
was given to Random House to have a "hatchet job" done against cold
fusion. The result was the widely acclaimed (by orchestration) book by
Gary Taubes, BAD SCIENCE, THE SHORT LIFE AND WEIRD TIMES OF COLD
FUSION, c1993. For one knowledgeable about the cold fusion
developments, it is obvious that this book was a deliberate hatchet
job.
In addition to the above well-orchestrated activities,
some appointed, or self-appointed scientists have been very active in
traveling to conventions, etc. and doing their best to challenge any
positive cold fusion results. Two
of these are (were) Dr. Douglas R.O. Morrison (CERN, Switzerland) and
Professor John R. Huizenga of University of Rochester (chairman of the
ERAB sub committee, if my memory is correct).
One of the most active protagonists has been Robert
Parks, with some association with the American Physical Society. (The
current president of the American Physical Society, in a recent
conversation, denies that Robert Parks speaks for the society.) Parks
was instrumental in preventing a recent conference from being held in
a proffered auditorium in a
government facility. Parks has an email list of many people in the DOE
and about once a month or more often sends out statements that
ridicule any cold fusion or low-energy nuclear reaction experiments,
papers, books, etc.
Please recognize that this anti-cold-fusion program was
a very-well, planned and orchestrated scheme to destroy cold fusion.
These were clever and well-done operations. We have been told that
were it not for Fusion Facts and its rapid exchange of information of
successes in various parts of the world, cold fusion would have been
dead. That is more credit than we deserve.
C. THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSIONAL PAPERS
The Fusion Information Center, Inc. is believed to have
accumulated the world's largest collection of papers on cold nuclear
fusion, new-hydrogen energy (the Japanese label), low-energy nuclear
reactions, and other enhanced energy papers. We have collected and
reviewed over 3,000 papers on cold fusion and low-energy nuclear
reactions, read the papers, written reviews, and published the
reviews. Over 600 papers from over 200
laboratories in 30 countries report some successes in replicating or
extending the original work of Pons and Fleischmann. Dr. Mitchell
Swartz and I have presented papers on this extensive review of the
literature.
In addition, this office has published New Energy News,
for the past six years. All members of the Institute of New Energy
receive this newsletter. In addition, beginning in January 1996, this
office began publishing the Journal of New Energy, a quarterly,
peer-reviewed, scientific journal. The reason was the lack of
professional journals that would publish some of the new-energy and
new-science papers. For example, we have published six papers about
torsion field fluctuations which report on formerly highly-secret work
done by over 25 laboratories in the former USSR. This journal has
published two issues providing the proceedings of two International
Conferences on Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions.
All of this published information (Fusion Facts, New
Energy News, & Journal of New Energy), covering a ten-year period, has
now been published on a CD-ROM. If a copy of this CD-ROM would be of
interest to you, we would be pleased to send you a copy.
D. THE ROLE OF THE DOE
As is well-known, political appointees to government
agencies come and go but the real work of the agency is accomplished
by the network of civil servants who bear the burden of continuing and
exercising the Congressional mandates for their offices.
Here is a summary of the current situation in DOE:
The DOE is required by law to handle the disposition of
all high-level nuclear wastes including weapons-related liquid wastes
(such as at the Hanford Site, Washington state) and the spent-fuel
pellets from nuclear power plants and from nuclear submarines. In
about 1993 or 1994 a
contact was given to the National Research Council to prepare a study
on the best methods for separation and/or transmutation of nuclear
wastes. The result was the following large publication printed and
distributed in 1996: Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and
Transmutation, Committee on Separations Technology and Transmutation
Systems, Board on Radioactive Waste Management, Commission on
Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council,
published by National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. c1996 by the
National Academy of Sciences.
It is not known if the contract was awarded with counsel
and advice on the expected outcome. However, the end result was a
statement to the effect that there is no known method of handling
radioactive wastes that is more cost-effective than geologic storage.
That has been and still is the major
objective of the DOE - geologic storage. Any proposals that claim to
have new technology that will stabilize high-level radioactive wastes
are rejected. In one DOE document asking for proposals, it was
explicitly stated that no cold fusion proposals would be accepted.
Several laboratories, included our own, have
demonstrated that there is technology that appears to be effective in
transmuting radioactive wastes. None of this work, to our knowledge,
is government funded. Apparently, the network of those opposing cold
fusion and other low-energy nuclear
reactions is most effective throughout the DOE as well as in the
appropriate division of the Office of Patents. It is believed that
this opposition group is mainly related to the hot-fusion community of
scholars and lobbyists and that the activities are being largely
supported by federal funds provided to the hot fusion community.
/s/ Hal Fox
President, Fusion Information Center
For more info also see
http://www.infinite-energy.com
by Hal Fox
President, Fusion Information Center
halfox@slkc.uswest.net
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